Presentation of the EFSA's second scientific conference, held on 14-16 October 2015 in Milan, Italy. EXPERTISE FOR THE FUTURE

1. Beyond traditional learning-
Ways of professionals to stay up-to-date
on health risk assessment
Johanna Zilliacus, Senior lecturer, Associate professor
Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
E-mail: johanna.zilliacus@ki.se

2. Need for competence in risk assessment
 European authorities
 Panels and Scientific Committees
 Staff
 National authorities
 Industry
 Universities
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3. From student to professional risk assessor
Scientific education
 Master programmes
 Toxicology
 Food science
 Pharmacy
 Veterinary medicine
 PhD programmes
Training in risk assessment
 Previously:
 Practical experience and learning by
doing
 In the future:
 Training programmes and courses in risk
assessment
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4. Building a training programme in health risk assessment
 Institute of Environmental Medicine, IMM,
Karolinska Institututet
 Helen Håkansson
 Annika Hanberg
 Johanna Zilliacus
 In collaboration with many European universities
and risk assessment institutes
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5. Course design and delivery within EU-projects
CASCADE and RA-COURSES (2005-2011)
 Design of 10 different 1-week-long courses
 In collaboration with European universities and risk assessment institutes:
 Charité Berlin, Germany
 RIVM, Netherlands
 RIKILT, Netherlands
 University of Eastern Finland, Finland
 Umeå university, Sweden
 Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
 Many applicant to each course
 In total 500 participants from Europe and beyond
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6. Design and delivery of training programme within the
EU-project TRISK (2009-2012)
 Design of full training programme with courses and applied project
 Eight 1-week-long courses
 3 month-long practical risk assessment project
 Collaboration with European universities
 Milan, Italien
 Utrecht, Netherlands
 Surrey, UK
 Duesseldorf, Germany
 Many applicants
 26 participants from authorities, industry and universities in Europe
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7. Activities to identify content and structure for training in
health risk assessment
 RAAP – Guidelines for risk assessment training
 Project coordinated by EU DG SANCO
 TRISK – Guidelines for risk assessment training
 Based on experience from TRISK
 CEN 416 – European standard for risk assessment training
 Project within the European Committee for Standardisation CEN
 ERT – Guidelines for European registered toxicologists
 Project within EUROTOX
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8. RAAP – Guidelines for risk assessment training
Project coordinated by
EU DG SANCO
Final guidelines
published October 11, 2012
 Programme
 Modular programme of course modules
 Practical training at an institution performing risk assessment
 Final assessment
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9. TRISK – Guidelines for risk assessment training
Programme structure
 Modular training programme
 At least eight 1-week-long course modules
 Modules given during 1-2 year period
 Mix of lectures and group work, programme, exercises, discussions
 Applied training
 At least 450 hours (3 months full time)
 At authority, industry or risk assessment institute
 External or in-house
 Perform a complete risk assessment
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10. European standard-
Health risk assessment of chemicals - Requirements for the
provision of training
 Technical Committee CEN/TC 416
 Minimum requirements for a course programme to train risk assessors
 Specifies the objectives for a course programme for the following areas
 General health risk assessment principles
 Toxicology
 Epidemiology
 Exposure assessment
 Risk characterisation
 Ethics and quality control
 Implications for risk management and risk communication
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11. ERT – Guidelines for European registered toxicologists
 EUROTOX European societies for toxicology
 Guidelines for theoretical and practical training
 Theoretical training
 Content and learning outcomes for core and specialist topics
 Examples of risk assessment related topics
 Risk assessment of chemicals
 Exposure assessment
 Drug safety assessment
 Regulatory toxicology
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12. Existing training courses and programmes
 Previously lack of information on existing courses and programmes
 DG SANCO inventory
 ec.europa.eu/health/dyna/training/training_en.cfm
 ECHA inventory
 echa.europa.eu/web/guest/about-us/jobs/graduate-scheme
 WHO Risk assessment training course database
 www.risktraindb.org
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13. IMM Advanced International Training Programme in
Health Risk Assessment
 1-week-long courses
 1-2 courses each term
 Participants from universities, industry and authorities
 International teachers and participants
 In collaboration with doctoral programme Environmental Factors and Health EFH
and Executive and Professional Education Office at KI
 http://ki.se/en/imm/international-training-in-health-risk-assessment
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14. Advanced International Training Programme
"Strategies for Chemicals Management"
 Swedish Chemicals Agency with funding from Swedish International
Development Cooperation (Sida)
 3-week training course in Sweden
 1-week training course in participating countries 6 months later
 Eastern Europe, South-East Asia and Africa
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15. WHO-Electronic distance learning tool on Risk
Assessment and Risk Management of Chemicals
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www.chemdlt.com
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16. Need for training in health risk assessment
 Permanent structure for training programme in risk assessment
 Universities in collaboration with authorities and industry
 Joint Master’s programme or Continuing Professional Education
 Internships and practical training projects
 Courses
 New and specific topics
 Face to face and distant learning
 Universities and authorities
 Funding for trainees from developing countries
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17. Thank you!
 Contact: Johanna Zilliacus, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska
Institutet, Sweden, e-mail: johanna.zilliacus@ki.se
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